Show 1 Pure Food Theory Applied To 10 Purchase of Clothing TN his me message to Congress accompanying the IS IN I wool report of the tariff board and recommending mending that there be a n revision re downward of the wool schedule Mr Taft had a n great deal cal to say n s about high grade wools the ad advisability of encouraging aging their importation to America an and the effect the thc present schedule has uiS in excluding these wools because of their great grent percentage of shrinkage Whether the President was awine aware avire of it is unknown un un- uli- uli known but the wool growers of the United States emphatically second his suggestion and declare that they have hare nothing to fear from the fine foreign wools The damage which foreign competition works upon the American producer is in the importation im un- un of shoddy wools which come conic in at low rate and which arc are being so extensively ely used in the making of the tho cheaper grades of clothing The Presidents President's recommendation that a specific specific specific duty lUty be imposed upon the scoured content of wool in ill the grease e even en if placed at so 50 low Iowa a figure figure fig fig- ure as twenty cents the pound seems to be accepted accepted accepted ac ac- ac- ac with good grace by American producers of wool who ask k no DO more duty than sufficient to equalize the cost of production at home and abroad a principle to which President Taft and his party part are committed With the classification of wool in two grades instead of three and remo removing ing from the importer the nd advantage ho lie enjo enjoyed ed in brin bringing ing f in iii third-class third wool t the e wool growers of this coun- coun tvr find themselves eg well content 01 The division ision of grades of wool for tariff purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses into three clas classes s while it has worked a hardship hardship hardship hard hard- ship upon the American producer has bas perhaps certain for complaint given the consumer cause I Under a a. wise statute producers of medicines and of foods in which deleterious substances are likely to enter arc required to indicate by label upon the finished product the die percentage of such substances substances sub sub- stances in order that the thc purchaser may be bo under no no misapprehension as to th what he is The law was agitated for years and it is agreed that it I Ihas has worked well in requiring manufacturing chemists chemists chem chem- isis and others to use more discretion and intelligence intelligence intelli intelli- gence in the articles they prepare for consumption and general sale There There- seems to be no good reason why it should not operate equally well with reference to clothing The average a consumer knows little about the wearing wearing wear wear- ing quality of the clothing he lie is buying unless he heis heis is assured by the name of the maker or the distributor distributor distributor dis dis- in whose output ho has acquired confidence confidence dence deuce by long-continued long fair dealing ealing Clothing manufactured from high-grade high Wool greatly exceeds ex cx- t. t in ill durability that into whose composition only shoddy enters There scarcely seems basis for comparison of the wearing qualities of the two grades of material Why would it not be of benefit to 10 the purchaser to require lequire the manufacturer to label his goods as IS to the percentage of wool that enters into the makeup as ris well as the grade of wool that has been used O One e-c e can argue that this be done with as much I logic as that used by the proponents of the pure food and drugs act which was enacted only onh after years of campaigning and which has had the center cen ecu ter of the stage e ever er since The e expense of clothing clothing cloth cloth- ing affects largely the cost of living Jiving of e every erY individual male or female It is important that each cach shall know what he lIe is getting for his mone money if Uncle Sam will win require that this be done he lie lieI heI I will have ha gone a long ways towar towards s settling the eternal te over the wool question an argument t which even cven the expert enters upon with misgiving ing It has been the constant cr cry of tho the Democratic I campaign orator that the woolen blankets of the present day are arc not the kind that mother used to toha ha have e that they contain a a. much lower percentage of wool and that shoddy is used instead d of the belter better better bet bet- ter grade Mr Taft has pointed out his belief that the imposing of duty uty upon wool in the grea grease e is responsible responsible responsible re re- re- re for the rare importation of high grade wools he be has recommended a tariff method that will obviate this condition Let Iet the tIle government go further ad require manufacturers of clothing and fabrics to label their goods with the percentage percent of wool used and the grade of it and an inestimable benefit vill will be con conferred upon the consumer |